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Academician Franjo Kogoj and Allergology in Croatia

Franjo Kogoj, regular member of Zagreb Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (YASA), presented at Commemorative Ceremony held on October 1, 1984 at YASA Home. Professor Sead Midžić, YASA associate member, wrote: "Academician Franjo Kogoj departed this life peacefully, quietly and gently, in acquiescence of harmoniously completed life, in his native place of Kranjska Gora, to which he had always been coming back. He was long-standing head of University Department of Dermatology and Venereology, and of School of Medicine Department of Dermatology and Venereology, dean and vice-dean of the Zagreb University School of Medicine for several terms of office, first secretary of YASA Department of Medical Sciences, and its elected vice-chairman for several terms of office (1958-1973). A brilliant era in the history of our School of Medicine and our medical sciences has terminated with his departure. We have lost him ; however, he has bequeathed to us his great opus and example that will always stimulate us to follow him as an ideal and an inexhaustible source of inspiration" He was elected regular YASA member in Zagreb in 1947. Kogoj devoted his life to the research, education and clinical work in the field of allergology and clinical immunology in dermatology and venereology. Franjo Kogoj was born on October 13, 1894 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, where he died on September 30, 1983. He studied at Charles University School of Medicine and graduated from it in 1920. He found his scientific interest at Prof. Šamberg's Department in Prague, where he mastered precision, systematic approach and morphology of skin lesions. Prof. Jadassohn aroused his interest in experimental studies he had dealt with throughout his professional life Kogoj was a versatile scientist. He entered the European and world's scientific legacy by his clinical and scientific studies, in particular his histological discovery of the "spongiform pustule of Kogoj" in the diagnosis of pustular psoriasis. The great contribution of Academician Kogoj to Croatian dermatology and venereology, allergology in particular, is inarguable. Kogoj's educational and scientific work was abundant in original ideas and procedures, for which he was recognized as one of the leading dermatologists worldwide. He was member of the Standing Expert Council for Therapy Issues of the Federal Healthcare Institute and of the Federal Council for Coordination of Scientific Activities ; chairman of the Committee for Medical Sciences and of the Expert Group for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology ; member of the Science Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (SRC) ; chairman of the Association of Institutions and Organizations for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research in SRC ; delegate of the Yugoslav Council of Academies to the Committee for Science and Technology Coordination ; member of the Executive Committee of the Board for the Foundation of the School of Medicine in Rijeka ; member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and New York Academy of Science ; and corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Bosnia and Herzegovina Academy of Science and Arts, Schweizerische Akademie für medizinische Wissenschaften and Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. He was chairman, honorary member, corresponding member or regular member of forty international and Yugoslav dermatological and medical societies.Kogoj published around 230 scientific and professional papers, some 70 of them dealing with the issues in allergology and immunobiology. He wrote 5 books, several monographs, and a number of precious contributions to handbooks and textbooks in the field. Upon retirement, Kogoj used to visit the Department until 1979, still working hard and having published more than 50 papers, the last one in 1977. Academician Kogoj received high orders, awards and decorations not only at the national level but also from other European and non-European countries for his extraordinary scientific, professional and educational work as well as for his numerous social activities (4, 10, 11). Academician Kogoj departed this life but his work and achievements live. It will certainly take decades for such a bright figure, such a man, humanist, organizer, educator, health professional and researcher to appear in our environment.

academician Franjo Kogoj and allergology; pruridermatitis allergica chronica constitutionalis; Secretary of Medical Science Section of Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts

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